Director Debaditya Bandopadhyay says his film Ped Chalta Hai was inspired by Jharkhand’s forests and people living close to ...

The landmark Malayalam classic, restored by Film Heritage Foundation, is the only Indian feature selected for a world ...

How Many Languages Are Spoken in India: India is incredibly diverse, especially in the way people speak. Across the country, ...

Bengaluru: The controversy over veteran actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan’s comment that Kannada was “born out of Tamil” refuses to die down, with linguistic experts rejecting his claim ...

Malayalam OTT releases this week: A new set of original and OTT releases is here. New Malayalam releases will be streaming online on OTT platforms like JioHotstar, Netflix, Sun NXT, ZEE5 and more.

The recent move to adopt the name “Keralam" in place of “Kerala" has renewed public interest in the linguistic and historical roots of Indian state/city names, particularly those shaped by Sanskrit ...

In 2023, all the members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly voted to ask the Union government to change the state's name from "Kerala" to "Keralam." When I first heard the suggestion, it seemed mostly ...

When a Tamil speaker exclaims “Sabaash!” to celebrate an act worthy of applause, she is reaching back through a very specific chain of history. The word, a contraction of the Persian shād bāsh – “be ...

Sarada talks about her life in cinema with the ease that comes from having lived it for a long time. Memories surface without fuss, moving between people, films and moments that shaped her career.

With 2025 coming to an end, we decided to pick 25 of the best Malayalam movies released during the first quarter of this century. The period (2001-2025) witnessed a multitude of outstanding movies and ...

Malayalam cinema has lost one of its most popular names on Saturday with the death of Sreenivasan. He was an actor, writer, and director whose work taught audiences how to laugh at themselves. He was ...

Malayalam cinema lost one of its sharpest voices on Sunday with the death of actor, screenwriter and director Sreenivasan, whose 48-year presence shaped the industry's conscience as much as its comedy ...